Microsoft Surface Computer – Coffee Table Running Windows Vista!

If you can afford 5 to 10 grand for an electronic coffee table, take a look a Microsoft Surface. It isn’t being touted on Microsoft’s sight yet, but this Yahoo! News Article has some info on it.
A coffee table with a touch screen top that responds to more than one touch at a time. Now [...]

Email Client – Decision time, What type are you?

Email client: local or remote? By which I mean, do you get you email on a local installation of a program such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird? Or do you use a web email product such as Hotmail, Yahoo! mail or Gmail?
If you use Windows Mail (Vista) or Outlook Express, be advised that [...]

Short Videos on Computer Security

The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Taskforce, The National Cyber Security Alliance and the Research Channel held a contest seeking videos that explain computer security problems and how to safeguard against these threats. The winning videos can be seen below. They are all under 2 minutes in length.
I have not watched them all, but I’m [...]

Free Computer Gear – 2.5″ USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

I love free, you do too.

One of today’s limited stock items from Buy.com that is FREE (after rebate) with FREE SHIPPING is the Coolmax 2.5 USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure.
This is will fit 2.5″ hard drives, which is laptop size. I happen to have a spare laptop hard drive laying around, so…
Important point: Make sure [...]

MBox 2 Pro – Update – Hardware Profiles

Continuing our MBox 2 Pro and ProTools software discussion, my laptop configuration is a Pentium M 1.7Ghz with 1.5GB RAM and a 100GB 7200rpm hard drive.
The MBox tech support rep had me turn off several devices in order to get the software to run reliably. Naturally, it made sense to setup a hardware profile for [...]

Windows Vista – A Dead End?

I was cleaning out my bookmarks and came across this great post from John C. Dvorak at PCMag.com. It’s titled Is Vista a Dead End?
I tend to agree with what John is saying here, especially the part about Apple running out of ideas for Microsoft to try to copy (some would say they aren’t very [...]

One Laptop Per Child – The $100 Laptop

Because of my interest in the One Laptop Per Child initiative, I was suckered into watching the 1 minute 15 second video on Yahoo!. Normally, I won’t watch any videos on Yahoo! because:

Yahoo! bandwidth on videos stinks
You must watch a stupid commercial first
You cannot make up for the bandwidth problem (starting & stopping) by downloading [...]

Remote Access – Terminal Server, Remote Desktop

For those of us who work remotely, telecommuting or, in my case, remote administration, being able to connect to work from wherever you are is quite important.
This week one of my clients could not access the terminal server at work because of Microsoft licensing. Now, we all want Microsoft, lovingly referred to as M$, to [...]

MBox 2 Pro – Update

We have been using our new MBox 2 Pro (Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro Factory Bundle)a little bit, and for the most part we are pretty impressed. The Pro Tools Software is where the rub comes in, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
Since I have a BUNCH of old albums that I would like [...]

Secure USB Memory – Don’t Be Scammed

You wouldn’t think secure USB memory sticks would remind me of a song, but then you wouldn’t think that if you knew me either. EVERYTHING reminds me of a song. (If only I could remember more important things..)
If I were writing to Elvis fans, I might have used the expression “Don’t Be Fooled”. But since [...]